Can you achieve the 'Clapping Selfie'?

Selfies… where to begin? Fair enough it is a way of getting a picture of yourself, but whatever happened to asking someone else to take it for you?

First it was the normal selfie, a blurred picture of yourself with half of your hand covering the lens. Then selfie sticks came in to allow a steadier, wider picture.

Then Snapchat came along with its filters, and the possibilities were endless, you could be a cat, dog, you could pretend to cry or be a pineapple.

Now the new craze is the ‘high-five’ selfie. Where you take the picture in the mirror and drop your phone (I know) so the delay of the camera takes a picture mid-air and you have a picture of you high-fiving yourself.

The first to complete this task was Seth Schneider, an engineer at North Carolina State University. He posted this to his twitter on Saturday:

Now even though the image is incredibly blurry, fair play to him, it does clearly show him high-fiving himself.

But now others are attempting, some successful, but some just break their phones (put a pillow underneath!).

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